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Councilman Criticizes Chief Over Views Toward Latinos

January 29, 2010 | 8:00
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“Those Telegrams Were Fake.”

Councilman Edward R. Roybal criticizes Police Chief William H. Parker over the alleged statement at a Jan. 26, 1960, civil rights hearing: "Some of these people [Mexican Americans] have been here since before we were but some of them aren't far removed from the wild tribes of Mexico."